On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:07:57 -0400, Lee Winter wrote:
> That problem exists with copies, but not with links.  After all, file sharing
> is the very purpose of links.  I would prefer symbolic links so that defective
> tools cannot trash the original input files, but a read-only hard link would
> probably suffice.

Hard links share the same permissions, so a "read only" hard link means
*all* instances are read only. There's also nothing preventing tools
from writing through symlinks at all (it's how my dotfiles system
works).

--Ben

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